Bookstores in Melbourne: list of 120 free CSV

How many bookstores are in Melbourne?

OpenStreetMap lists 120 named bookstores inside the Greater Melbourne area (8,988 km²), extract of 11 Nov 2026. 40% of the records list a website and 32% a phone number; 71 named bookstores have no website on the public record. The biggest clusters are around Melbourne (22).

Examples on the list: Academic & High School Bookshop, Academic Solutionz, Alice & Co..

Edited on the map in the 90 days before the extract: 20 records, including Camberwell Books & Collectibles, Academic & High School Bookshop, Books For Cooks, Central Catholic Bookshop.

120named bookstores

40%list a website

71no website listed

75neighbourhoods

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Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, extract of 11 Nov 2026. The CSV is under the same licence.

71 with no website32 non-chain, edited since 2022.Filter to them
106 non-chain14 chain branches set aside; the biggest brand is Readings (4).Non-chain only
22 in MelbourneBusiest street: Bourke Street, Melbourne (3). Plan a territory by neighbourhood or postcode.Only Melbourne

50 of the 120 bookstores, A to Z

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Bookstores in Melbourne, OpenStreetMap extract of 11 Nov 2026.
Business	Street and area	Website	Phone
A
Academic & High School Bookshop	Moonee Ponds, no street on record
Academic Solutionznot edited since 2010	Sunshine, no street on record
Alice & Co.	159 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy	aliceonbrunswick.com	+61 3 8060 5578
Already Read Bookshop	98 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North	alreadyreadbookshop.com.au
Angels Trumpet	256 High Street, Northcote	angelstrumpet.com.au
Antipodesnot edited since 2021	Sorrento, no street on record
Avenue Bookstore	91 Swan Street, Cremorne	avenuebookstore.com.au	+61 3 8456 0627
B
Beaumaris Booksnot edited since 2011	Beaumaris, no street on record
Belgrave Book Barn and Art Supplies	1630 Burwood Highway, Belgrave	belgravebookbarn.com.au	+61 3 9752 5404
Benn's Books	437 Centre Road, Bentleigh
Birdie Bananas	88 Hastings Avenue, Boronia
Book Barn	Rosebud, no street on record
Book Grocer	455 Bourke Street, Melbourne	bookgrocer.libro.com.au	+61 3 9670 4304
Books Gifts Station	Docklands, no street on record
Books N Gifts Stationnot edited since 2016	Seabrook, no street on record
Bookshopnot edited since 2021	Berwick, no street on record
Brunswick Bound	361 Sydney Road, Brunswick	brunswickbound.com.au	+61 3 9381 4019
C
Campion Education	Mount Waverley, no street on record
Collins Booksellers	132 Main Street, Croydon	croydon.collinsbooks.com.au	+61 3 9723 5577
D
Daisy Bootsnot edited since 2019	385 Mount Dandenong Tourist Road, Sassafras	daisybootsbookshop.com.au	+61 439 110 251
Domain Books	179 Domain Road, South Yarra		+61 3 9820 0300
Douglas Stewart Fine Booksnot edited since 2022	720 High Street, Armadale	douglasstewart.com.au	+61 3 9066 0200
DUSA Book Shopnot edited since 2017	Burwood, no street on record
Dymocks	Windsor, no street on record
E
Eltham Bookshop	Eltham, no street on record
F
Fairfield Books	117A Station Street, Fairfield		+61 3 9017 4748
Farrells	Mornington, no street on record
Frankston Book Exchange	Frankston, no street on record		+61 3 9783 1087
G
Golden Bowl Books	280 Sydney Road, Coburg	goldenbowlbooks.com	+61 400 066 287
Good News Bookshop	23 Somers Parade, Altona
H
Happy Valley	294 Smith Street, Collingwood	happyvalleyshop.com
Hurstbridge Books, CDs and Videos	Hurstbridge, no street on record
I
I Love Books	Mont Albert North, no street on record
J
JP Books	355 Somerville Road, Kingsville
K
Khai Trínot edited since 2020	6 Droop Street, Footscray
Koorong	8 Vicki Street, Blackburn South	koorong.com	+61 3 9262 7444
M
McLeods Booksnot edited since 2016	Nunawading, no street on record
N
Narre Warren North Newsagentnot edited since 2013	Narre Warren North, no street on record
North Melbourne Books	546 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne	northmelbournebooks.com.au	+61 3 9041 4216
North of the Yarra School Books	52-56 Strathallan Road, Macleod	northoftheyarra.com.au	+61 3 9458 4749
O
Old Books & Collectablesnot edited since 2020	Kew East, no street on record
P
Perimeter Books	734 High Street, Thornbury	perimeterbooks.com	+61 3 9484 8101
Q
QBD Book Store	Mill Park, no street on record
QBD Books	Taylors Lakes, no street on record
R
Readings	309 Lygon Street, Carlton	readings.com.au	+61 3 9347 6633
Readings Doncaster	619 Doncaster Road, Doncaster		+61 3 9810 0891
Readings Malvern	185 Glenferrie Road, Malvern		+61 3 9509 1952
S
Sainsburys Books	534 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn East	sainsburysbooks.com.au	+61 3 9882 7705
T
Thesaurus Booksnot edited since 2022	Church Street, Brighton
Tim's Bookshop Canterbury	143 Maling Road, Canterbury

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3 more records have no name on the map and are left out of the list.

Bookstores in Melbourne with no website listed

32 of 106 named non-chain bookstores; 12 below, the rest in the filter or the CSV.

Academic & High School BookshopMoonee Ponds
Avenue BookstoreAlbert Park
Avoca Hill Bookstore80 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Benn's Books437 Centre Road, Bentleigh
Birdie Bananas88 Hastings Avenue, Boronia
Fairfield Books117A Station Street, Fairfield, phone listed
Good News Bookshop23 Somers Parade, Altona
Ramona Books79 High Street, Northcote
The Leaf Bookshop283A High Street, Ashburton
The Searchers Books + Records93 Smith Street, Collingwood
Tim's Bookshop Canterbury143 Maling Road, Canterbury
Top Title BooksChurch Street, Brighton

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Where they are

Map of the 120 bookstores inside the Melbourne boundary; most sit around Melbourne, Collingwood, Armadale. — website listedno website, or social page only

Busiest streets

Bourke Street, Melbourne3
High Street, Northcote3

By neighbourhood

Black: website listed.

63 more neighbourhoods in the filter above.

By postcode district

30008
30132
30532
30712
31212

Chains and non-chain businesses

11% of the records are branches of a chain or brand; 109 are not.

Readings4
Campion Education3
Dymocks3
QBD Books2

What the records hold

123 map records.
Field	Records	Share
Street address	64	52%
Website (own site)	49	40%
Phone on file	39	32%
Email on file (not shown)	7	6%
Opening hours	42	34%
Chain or brand branch	14	11%
Edited since January 2024	78	63%

Half the records were last edited in Mar 2025 or later.

Why other sites show a different number

Coverage. 123 mapped; Google Maps holds more.
Boundary. 8,988 km² (map); metro searches count more.
Names. 14 branches each count once; 3 unnamed left out.

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Businesses to contact, not customer enquiries ("leads" for your own business are a different product).

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Set Maximum leads to 300.
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bookstores in 3000, Melbourne, Australia
bookstores in 3013, Melbourne, Australia
bookstores in 3053, Melbourne, Australia
bookstores in 3071, Melbourne, Australia

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Compared	The free CSV here	Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder
Rows	120 named bookstores	what Google Maps returns, up to your limit
Phones	39 on file	yes
Emails	7 on the record, not shown	from each website (49)
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Bookstores in other cities

City	Named	Website listed
Bookstores in Sydney	70	27%
Bookstores in Brisbane	35	22%
Bookstores in Adelaide	23	29%
Bookstores in Canberra	14	29%
Bookstores in Hobart	10	20%
Bookstores in Paris	595	50%
Bookshops in London	324	58%
Bookstores in Berlin	307	66%
Bookstores in New York City	157	68%
Bookstores in Toronto	108	50%

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Questions

How many bookstores are there in Melbourne?

At least 123: that is how many OpenStreetMap has inside the Greater Melbourne area, 120 with a name (extract of 11 Nov 2026). 14 are chain branches. Google Maps usually lists more, because more owners add themselves there.

Which part of Melbourne has the most bookstores?

Melbourne (22), then Collingwood (4) and Armadale (3); the busiest street is Bourke Street, Melbourne (3). 75 neighbourhoods have at least one.

How many bookstores in Melbourne have no website?

71 of the 120 named bookstores have no website on their map record; 32 of them are not chain branches.

How do I get phone numbers and emails for bookstores in Melbourne?

Run Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder with the search "bookstores in Melbourne, Australia" plus 1 neighbourhood searches such as "bookstores in Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia". One run costs about $0.52 to $0.64 ($0.40 start fee (4 GB run) included), plus platform usage, for 120 to 240 rows.

Sources

OpenStreetMap extract for Melbourne, checked 2026-11-11
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Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder on the Apify Store, checked 2026-11-13

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